{"id":44171,"date":"2014-06-24T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=7958468aa12db3e5713f31001d3a28b1"},"modified":"2014-06-24T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T14:45:00","slug":"press-release-press-briefing-afternoon-24-june-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=44171","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Press briefing: afternoon 24 June 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h2 id=\"andy-coulson\">Andy Coulson<\/h2>\n<p>Asked about the Prime Minister\u2019s (<abbr title=\"Prime Minister\">PM<\/abbr>) reaction to the court\u2019s decision on Andy Coulson today the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\u2019s Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said he had nothing further to add to the statement the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\">PM<\/abbr> made earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about Mr Coulson\u2019s level of vetting, the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\u2019s Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> pointed to the Leveson Inquiry report and the then Cabinet Secretary\u2019s letter of 22 July 2011, which clearly explained it was a matter for the civil service.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"eu\">EU<\/h2>\n<p>Asked how the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\">PM<\/abbr> felt about Albania gaining candidate status the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\u2019s Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\">PM<\/abbr> believes the process of accession is a long one and that he would block accession from any country until new controls and transitional rules are put in place.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\">PM<\/abbr> would be encouraging other members of the EU to put their name forward for the European Commission presidency the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\u2019s Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said this was not an approach the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\">PM<\/abbr> was pursing and his concern on this issue was one of principles and priorities.<\/p>\n<p>Asked what the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\">PM<\/abbr>\u2019s thoughts were on comments by Laszlo Andor that benefit tourism was a \u2018fiction\u2019 the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\u2019s Spokesperson\">PMS<\/abbr> said the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\">PM<\/abbr> believed there were various pressures migration had on the benefit system and this concerned him \u2013 a sentiment widely shared by European counterparts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister\u2019s Spokesperson (PMS) answered questions on Andy Coulson and the EU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}